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enTTT#371 Social Media in Schools? Paige Woodard, Jo Paraiso and her students: Bassam Taleb, Katia Navidad, Jorge Espinoza 11.6.13http://edtechtalk.com/node/5230
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</object><br />61:11 minutes (42.01 MB)<p>On this episode of TTT we discuss social media in education with several high school students. We are joined by:</p><ul><li><strong>Paige Woodard</strong> @paige_woodard <a href="http://paigeawoodard.wordpress.com/">http://paigeawoodard.wordpress.com</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/100925287182971541229" oid="100925287182971541229"><img alt="Paige Woodard's profile photo" oid="100925287182971541229" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-z6D7mnlKDd0/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/pW-q-gp4b50/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Paige Woodard</li><li><strong>Johanna Paraiso </strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/paraisoenglishclass/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/paraisoenglishclass/</a>&nbsp;and three of her students at Fremont High School in Oakland, California <a href="http://youthvoices.net/Fremont" target="_blank">http://youthvoices.net/Fremont</a><br><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118384703297309529383" oid="118384703297309529383"><img alt="Johanna Paraiso's profile photo" oid="118384703297309529383" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ap-H7v3qQt4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/OkffJ41r17U/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Johanna Paraiso <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116433939357436607380" oid="116433939357436607380"><img alt="bassam taleb's profile photo" oid="116433939357436607380" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DkU_Ib4oHgQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/l54x2Wf6cKw/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> bassam taleb <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114648069424911593309" oid="114648069424911593309"><img alt="Katia Navidad's profile photo" oid="114648069424911593309" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0DMxatFTWxQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/TJH7Txm265M/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Katia Navidad <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/114336720408979386338" oid="114336720408979386338"><img alt="jorge espinoza's profile photo" oid="114336720408979386338" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xyZB8gKIY5c/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/JHKzhgYG61A/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> jorge espinoza</li></ul><p>Paige is on a mission, and we learn a lot by when Joanna's students who are working on&nbsp;<a href="http://youthvoices.net/">http://youthvoices.net</a> join her in this conversation.</p><p>Here's what Paige wrote recently on Shane Haggerty's blog <a href="http://publicassemblypr.com/2013/10/31/what-i-learned-one-students-mission/">http://publicassemblypr.com/2013/10/31/what-i-learned-one-students-mission/</a>:</p><blockquote>Changing the education system is difficult, but tangible.<br><br>For the past three months I have focused on integrating social media into the education system and, surprisingly, have found countless administrators, teachers, and social media gurus alike that are passionate about assisting me in my mission.<br><br>My social media education mission began with a simple Twitter account and blog on WordPress, yet my ultimate goal is to film a DVD to sell to school administrators that will explain why social media is beneficial in the classroom and how it can be incorporated into the curriculum.</blockquote><p>Paige also writes (in an email):</p><blockquote>I am really interested in students' responsibility on social media and why they should monitor what they share, as college admissions and future employers alike research you on social media before accepting you into their college/university or allow you to represent their business.<br><br>I am also advocating for social media usage in the classroom because it exposes students to countless opportunities unavailable to them in their school district. As an example, without the use of social media and networking, I would not have made a presentation to Howard Rheingold's class at Stanford University.<br><br>I am happy to brainstorm any other ideas as well.</blockquote><p>Want more? Here's Howard Rheingold's interview with Paige and and her teacher, Don Wettrick, "Freedom, Autonomy, and Digital Media at an Indiana High School" <a href="http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/freedom-autonomy-and-digital-media-indiana-high-school">http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/freedom-autonomy-and-digital-media-indiana-high-school</a></p><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="403" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://paulallison.makes.org/popcorn/1oex_" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe></center><center><hr><p>Click <b>Read more</b> to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.</p><hr></center><p><p><a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/5230" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://edtechtalk.com/node/5230#commentsTeachers Teaching TeachersBassam TalebbloggingFremont High SchoolJohanna ParaisoJorge EspinozaKatia NavidadPaige Woodardsocial mediastudentsTwitteryouth voices61:11noSun, 05 Jan 2014 16:55:40 +0000Paul Allison5230 at http://edtechtalk.comTTT#359 Scaffolding the Blogging Process with Teachers in the Dakota Writing Project's Digital Writing Sandbox 7.31.13http://edtechtalk.com/node/5209
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</object><br />66:42 minutes (45.8 MB)<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/116656152653213584230" oid="116656152653213584230">Michelle Rogge Gannon</a> and I invite you to join us on this episode of <a href="http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/" target="_blank">TTT</a> (which was recorded 7.31.13). Earlier in the summer, Michelle wrote:</p><blockquote><p>Some of the teachers in the Dakota Writing Project Digital Writing Sandbox are asking for resources on scaffolding the blogging process and on evaluating blog entries. I wondered if you might have some resources that you would be willing to share or if you could point to some that might be useful.</p></blockquote><p>"Scaffolding the blogging process and evaluating blog entries" sounded like a great discussion to for Teachers Teaching Teachers, so we invited Michelle and her colleagues to join us toward the end of July.<br><br>In addition to these questions, we also asked about anything that these teachers are learning together in the Dakota Writing Project Sandbox, which is described on their web site <a href="http://sites.usd.edu/dwp/sandbox" title="http://sites.usd.edu/dwp/sandbox">http://sites.usd.edu/dwp/sandbox</a> :</p><blockquote><p>Taking a 21st-century approach, the Dakota Writing Project Digital Writing Marathon provides educators with a thoughtful, intensive, collaborative exploration of a variety of technology environments and strategies for integrating writing and adapting these technologies appropriately for the classroom. The marathon is offered entirely online, with both synchronous (real-time) and asynchronous communication and activities, with the majority of online work occurring in July 2013, January 2014, and May 2014. The marathon is taught by Dakota Writing Project teacher-consultants with extensive experience in integrating writing and technology for the classroom.</p></blockquote><p>It was a lot of fun to meet and speak with these wonderful educators:</p><center><p><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118192708099277550918" oid="118192708099277550918"><img alt="Jennifer Harvey's profile photo" oid="118192708099277550918" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-oXtHcWQfuSc/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABss/-mrLO-AziIg/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Jennifer Harvey <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107336603455680911297" oid="107336603455680911297"><img alt="Anne Moege's profile photo" oid="107336603455680911297" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g4bVesvvpog/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAYM/2468SGA2hr8/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Anne Moege <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116656152653213584230" oid="116656152653213584230"><img alt="Michelle Rogge Gannon's profile photo" oid="116656152653213584230" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eKMZD74FcL4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAEM/SsOLPLRqp34/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Michelle Rogge Gannon<br><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105765110775938991404" oid="105765110775938991404"><img alt="Valerie Burton's profile photo" oid="105765110775938991404" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hGOGThTBVX8/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAHjc/fdbj2vh1CUQ/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Valerie Burton <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/105380252224395103221" oid="105380252224395103221"><img alt="Steve Gors's profile photo" oid="105380252224395103221" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J26Pn78zuw8/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAD0/SZgufk5xGT0/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a> Steve Gors <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/104659513808833308047" oid="104659513808833308047"><img alt="Samantha Peil's profile photo" oid="104659513808833308047" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8ikhNl16qqE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAG8/YGL6S5zo_48/s46-c-k-no/photo.jpg"></a>Samantha Peil</p></center><center><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="358" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://paulallison.makes.org/popcorn/1cmo_" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="560"></iframe></p><p>Enjoy!</p></center><p><a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/5209" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://edtechtalk.com/node/5209#commentsTeachers Teaching TeachersAnne MoegebloggingDakota Writing ProjectDigital Writing SandboxJennifer HarveyMichelle Rogge GannonPaul AllisonSamantha PeilSteve GorsValerie Burton66:42noSun, 25 Aug 2013 23:31:49 +0000Paul Allison5209 at http://edtechtalk.comTTT#330 Quadblogging 2 with Cliff Manning, David Mitchell, Gail Desler, Linda Yollis, Matt Hardy, Sue Waters, Suzi Boss 1.9.13http://edtechtalk.com/node/5161
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</object><br />68:28 minutes (47.01 MB)<p>We are joined by colleagues from England and Australia on this episode of TTT as we follow-up with them on an earler conversations about blogging in elementary schools: <a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/5156">http://edtechtalk.com/node/5156</a>.<br /><br />Our goal is simple: we want to make plans for elementary school students to find and respond to each others blog posts this spring. Joining us on this episode of TTT are <a href="https://www.makewav.es/">Makewaves</a>&rsquo; Cliff Manning, <a href="http://kidblog.org/home/">KidBlog</a>&rsquo;s Matt Hardy, Sue Waters from <a href="http://edublogs.org/">EduBlogs</a>, and some of us are from <a href="http://youthvoices.net/">Youth Voices</a>. We are also joined by David Mitchell, the <a href="http://quadblogging.net/">Quadblogging</a> guru and Linda Yollis an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles who Quadblogs her own way.<br /><br />Suzie Boss describes Quadblogging like this in a <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/blog/quad-blogging-technology-classroom-suzie-boss">September 25, 2012 post in Edutopia</a>:</p><blockquote>The idea is deceptively simple. Four teachers agree to have their students comment on each other&#39;s blogs in an organized fashion. Each week, one of the four gets a turn as the spotlight class. The other three classes visit and leave comments. Over the course of a month, every student&#39;s work gets read and commented upon. Along the way, students learn about respectful online communication. They may decide to revise their thinking if a commenter shares a perspective they haven&#39;t considered.</blockquote><p>On this episode of TTT <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113993022447291199374">Paul Allison</a>, @paulallison is joined by <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109276236529722792028/posts">Cliff Manning</a>, @cliffmanning, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/101622013033771255565">Sue Waters</a>, @suewaters, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/111357110104867983541/posts">David Mitchell</a>, @DeputyMitchell, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102932532822328503047">Gail Desler</a>, @gaildesler, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102999073878519875065/posts">Linda Yollis</a>, @lindayollis, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110013387130059960314">Matt Hardy</a>, @hardy101, and <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116770479909568682742">Suzie Boss</a>, @suzieboss.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a class="g-s-n-aa Wk" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113993022447291199374" oid="113993022447291199374" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204); 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font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: initial;"><img alt="Matt Hardy's profile photo" class="Zb HtfFfe mV" height="44px" oid="110013387130059960314" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-y2xdo3gSt5Y/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/IO4n4HbZcUI/s44-c-k/photo.jpg" style="border: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 3px;" width="44px" /></a><a class="g-s-n-aa Wk" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/116770479909568682742" oid="116770479909568682742" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 0px; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: initial;"><img alt="Suzie Boss's profile photo" class="Zb HtfFfe mV" height="44px" oid="116770479909568682742" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z49l1a39elA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/QqdfE5h_l8k/s44-c-k/photo.jpg" style="border: 0px; 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Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 classes in 40 countries....<img alt="" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/suITxC4pGMtDBD8U-1Gg0PyFMpt_egSCl4c55rVrFa1eFAijVhU7DCWfoaFK2T5b6mVuFfOft4WNgeHb5c8_bxR21oz1l8wy5selJvHWYAQG72hGR2s4" /><br /><br />A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle. Here&rsquo;s how it works:<br /><br /> You sign up using the form below, shortly after, you will be allocated a Quad four schools/classes including your own. Each Quad has a co-ordinator who is responsible for making sure each of the quad members know what is going on and when. Each week one blog is the focus blog with the other three blogs visiting and commenting during that week. In week two, another school/class blog is the focus with the other three visiting and commenting. This is repeated until each of the classes/schools has had their week in the spotlight. The cycle is then repeated. However, this time, your pupils know what is coming &ndash; They will work harder than you have seen them work in order to get content on their blog!<br /><br /> QuadBlogging has been mentioned very highly in recent OfSTED Reports here in the UK and praised for offering opportunities for:&ldquo;profound impact in developing pupils&rsquo; team working, communication and problem-solving skills.&rdquo;<br /><br /> It&rsquo;s simple &ndash; Give it a try, sign up <a href="http://quadblogging.net/blog/2012/11/26/round-4-jan-to-march-2013/">here</a>.</blockquote><center><p><iframe height="700" src="https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play_embedded/7221/?width=540" style="border:hidden;overflow:visible;" width="540"></iframe></p></center><center style="color: rgb(83, 83, 83); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"><p style="text-align: left;">Enjoy!</p><p><a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/5161" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://edtechtalk.com/node/5161#commentsTeachers Teaching TeachersBloggerbloggingCliff ManningcommentsconnectingDavid MitchelledublogselementaryGail DeslerKidblogLinda YollismakewavesMatt HardyPaul AllisonQuadbloggingSue WatersSuzie Bossyouth voices68:28noSun, 20 Jan 2013 15:26:54 +0000Paul Allison5161 at http://edtechtalk.comTeachers Teaching Teachers #245 - Meet the New Youth Voices - An open meeting where we talk about the recent upgrade - 4.27.11http://edtechtalk.com/node/4972
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<p>On this episode of <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2" target="_blank">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>, a group of us who are in the process of launching a new version of Youth Voices met to continue the process of building the technology and the pedegogy of our work together.</p>
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<a href="http://youthvoices.net">Youth Voices</a> is a school-based social network that was started in 2003 by a group of <a href="http://nwp.org/">National Writing Project </a>teachers. We merged several earlier blogging projects, preferring to bring our students together in one site that would live beyond any particular class, where it would be easier for individual students to connect with other students, comment on each others work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further we thought it made sense for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum and digital literacies. If being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to join us too. We work to embrace any teacher who is interested to have their students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.</p>
<p>Youth Voices is much more than a website or a social network. It is also a welcoming community of teachers who have been <a href="http://youthvoices.net/issue/archives" target="_blank">planning curriculum</a> together for many years. In addition to being active members in our local Writing Projects and the National Writing Project, many of us also count ourselves as member of the <a href="http://worldbridges.net/">World Bridges</a> community, and we meet regularly via Skype on a weekly webcast/podcast, <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>, which has been going live every Wednesday evening at <a href="../../">EdTechTalk</a> since 2006.</p>
<p>All of this collaboration and talk, these years of building curriculum and working on the web together have led to to consider: What do the Youth Voices/Teachers Teaching Teachers teachers love about this work? And why do we think any kindergarten - college teacher might
also find to love there too? What we think you and your students will find on Youth Voices, what we keeps us coming back, what we strive to engender, what we will never give up on (even in a school) is involving our students in “authentic conversation.”</p>
<p>Over the years the teachers who have been working together to grow Youth Voices have learned that as important <img alt="questions_bg" src="http://youthvoices.net/sites/default/files/vb_issue/2011-04apr-30/questions_bg.png" style="border:0px solid;margin:10px;float:right;" />as it is to have students publish multi-media, well-crafted products, it is at least as important to nurture, guide, and allow time for students to write comments and to develop conversations about each others discussion posts. Our mission at Youth Voices is to be a place online where students from across the nation (and globally, when possible) can engage other young people in conversations about real topics that they see happening in the world. We want our students to be immersed in lively, voiced give-and-take with their peers.</p><em>(For more, please read this resource at the National Writing Project's Digital Is site, "<a href="http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/1259" target="_blank">Authentic Conversations on Youth Voices</a>.")<br />
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</object><br />67:03 minutes (15.35 MB)<p>In the first half of th<img hspace="10" align="right" vspace="10" alt="KS1larger.jpg" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/learning/KS1larger.jpg" title="KS1larger.jpg" />is weeks episode of <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>, we had an inspiring conversation with Katherine Schulten editor of The Learning Network at the New York Times.&nbsp; Our theme for this week's Teachers Teaching Teachers was about increasing teacher voice in public debates. Katherine suggested how we might use The Learning Network for that.</p>
<p>In addition, we were joined by:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3010" target="_blank"><strong>Elyse Eidman-Aadahl</strong></a>, director of National Programs and Site Development at the National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley</li>
<li>and <a href="http://alzellner.edublogs.org/2010/02/18/becoming-a-teacher/"><strong>Andrea Zellner</strong></a> a leader at the Red Cedar Writing Project, Michigan State University's site of the NWP.</li>
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<p>Andrea and many o</p>
<p>thers in the chat room during the webcast gave witness to <a href="http://nwpworks.ning.com/">why we want to maintain federal funding for the NWP to continue</a> -- an example of a time wh</p>
<p>en we need to get our voices to be heard!&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&quot;It's been a heady week for teaching and learning discussion on the Times site,&quot; writes <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/whos-who-at-the-learning-network/">Katherine Schulten</a>, our first guest on this podcast. One of Katherine's jobs as an editor of the <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/">New York Times Learning Network</a> is to moderate the comments that come in on education-related articles.</p>
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<li>By this last weekend (3/7/2010), the article, &quot;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html">Building a Better Teacher</a>, had 313 comments on it, and had been one of the top most-emailed on the Times site after it went online last Wednesday.</li>
<li>For several days t<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/education/03ravitch.html">he article about Diane Ravitch's about-face on NCLB</a> was right up there too.</li>
<li>And this article, &quot;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/science/earth/04climate.html">Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets</a>,&quot; which is about teaching Darwin and Global Warming got over 1000 comments.</li>
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<p>A Student Opinion post from earlier this week, &quot;<a rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Where Do You Stand on Unconcealed Handguns?" href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/where-do-you-stand-on-unconcealed-handguns/">Where Do You Stand on Unconcealed Handguns?</a> &quot;received many lively responses from &quot;students 13 and older,&quot; who &quot;are invited [to the Learning Network] to comment on questions about issues in the news.&quot;</p>
<p>If you just clicked on those links, your head is probably spinning: so many issues so little time! That's what it feels like to have a conversation with Katherine Schulten, who before she became an editor for the Learning Network was a NYC teacher and a consultant for the New York City Writing Project. Katherine was worried that she was talking too much, because she is so excited about managing the Learning Network.</p>
<p>We'll turned Katherine loose, then we interrupted her with a few questions. We think you'l learn a lot about the New York Times Learning Network on this podcast:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">Currently, they are offering these features:</p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/">Lesson Plans</a></strong> &mdash; Daily lesson plans based on New York Times content.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/student-opinion">Student Opinion</a></strong> &mdash; News-related questions that invite response from students age 13 and older.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/word-of-the-day/">Word of the Day</a></strong> &mdash; Vocabulary words in the context of recent Times articles.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/6-qs-about-the-news/">6 Q&rsquo;s About the News</a></strong>s &mdash; An activity in which students answer basic questions (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How) about an article.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/daily-news-quiz/">News Quiz</a></strong> &mdash; Interactive daily news quizzes on current top stories.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/student-crossword">Student Crossword</a></strong> &mdash; Topical puzzles geared toward teens.</li>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">The award-winning Learning Network was created in the fall of 1998. In October 2009, they re-launched it as a Times blog.</p>
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